Titles starting with D from Antiquariat Botanicum

New york: : American Bible Society, , 1891.. First edition. Full Leather. Very Good. 8vo. Contemporary leather binding. Hinges with some breaks. 408p. Very good copy of this scarce title. This is the first translation of the New Testament into the Dakota Language by the American Bible Society used for converting the Dakota people to Christianity. ... more information

Daventriae: J. de Lange, 1843. Contemporary red morocco. Very Good +. 8vo Red morocco binding. Collation: 72 pp. + plates. This is a dissertation by Halbertsma, apparently his only publication. He was the son of Hiddes Halberts von Justus. Halbertsma held the position of Professonf of Anatomy and Physiology in Leiden. This is Clifford Dobell’s copy Halbertsma’s issue of Leeuwenhoek’s treatise with Dobell’s signature. Dobell wrote the definitive biography with bibliography of Leeuwen... more information

Leiden: : Ex Officicina Hackiana, , 1664. . Full Vellum. Very Good. 4to (204 x 152 mm). 2nd Edition. Contemporary vellum missing front paste down. Collation: [36] 1-123 (113- 123 numbered as 112-121) [1,Nota] [4] + 10 engraved plates, two of which have overlays. This is an uncut copy with general text and figures quite clean and bright. This is has been called the first book on physiology, although with some conjecture. Other authors often copied the fine copper engravings. Descartes influence on medi... more information

Paris: Levrault, 1823. Quarter Calf. Very Good. 4to. Collation: k xii, 174, viii pp. illustrated with 10 plates, 6 hand colored, 1 folding, 2 white on black. 2 of the plain plates were designed and engraved by F. Simon, Strasbourg 4to (29.0 x 22.7 cm). quarter leather on marble boards. Uncut copy. Minor foxing and edge browning, more so for the plates. Ex Libris. Institutional stamps on title page and verso of last plate.  Lobstein was a physician who believed in using anatomical dissections for teac... more information

London: : John Murray , 1871.. Original Cloth. Very Good. 1st edition 2nd issue. 2 volumes. 8vo (19.5 cm). Original green cloth. Collation: Vol. I - viii, 423 pp. + 16 pp. (ads.); Vol. II - viii, 405, 406-475 (index) [1] pp. + 16 pp.(ads.) Illustrated with numerous figures and drawings throughout the text. Original green cloth binding with title, author, vol., and publisher in gilt on spine, top and bottom of which have gilt decoration. The ends of spine of in Vol. I are frayed. Corners of both volumes ... more information

Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1790. Contemporary mottled calf. Very Good. 4to. Contemporary French binding in speckled calf; triple gilt boarder on boards, raised bands with separate title labels in upper panels, decorative floral pattern in other panels. Wear to ends of spine and corners with some loss. Collation: xvi, iv, 309 pp. + 12 folding copper-engraved maps. Text block with marbling. Important study of the accomplishments of French explorers in the Pacific, and the rediscovery of the Solom... more information

Princeton, 1932. DISSERTATION. Boards. Very Good. 4to. (28x24 cm) & (22.5x19.5 cm), respectively. Dissertation and note book bound in original paper boards wit paper labels on covers. Note book with marble paper on boards. Spines covered with black pebbled cloth. Collation for Dissertation: [1], [1]-45 [1] leaves + 11 photograph figures in text. The figures are photographs of results, instrumentation or graphs obtained by Mc Millan from experiments done for his Ph.D. research. The dissertation is a ... more information

[1700?].. Quarter sheep. Very Good. 8vo (28.8 x 18.0 cm). Contemproary quarter sheep and marble boards binding. Collation: 51 leaves hand written text on horizontal half of each page; other half with detailed pen and ink drawings to complement text. This is a meticulously written and illustrated Italian manuscript covering many aspects of pressure, force and mechanics. The illustrations show scales, hoists, pumps, fire arms, a balloon and so on related to specific physical laws and phenomena explain... more information

London: Longman, 1871. Modern quarter morocco and Marble Boards. Very Good. 4to,Modern black quarter morocco and marble boards. Complete with 72 hand-coloured engraved plates. Spotting to title and a few leaves, plates very clean with good color and detail. Two late nineteenth century broadsides on respiratory function folded and tipped-in at end. First atlas of cutaneous diseases from Willan with additions of newer dematological diseases by Bateman. [Garrison Morton 3988; Wellcome II, p.144] ... more information

Dresden: : Johann Riedel, , 1692. . First edition. Full Vellum. Very Good. 4to (19.5 x 16 cm) 1st Edition. Later full vellum. Text block trimmed not affecting plates or text. Collation: [21] [1]-310 [10]pp + Portrait, engraved title page and 14 copper engraved plates (3 folding) . Eight (8) of the plates are botanical.Expert repair to one folding plate. The text contains some staining, spotting and dusting with some strong dusting along creases of verso of two folding plates.   This is a scarce ... more information

Stuttgart, 1897. Detalied study of preparing malt and brewing beer.... more information

Paris: : Bossange, Masson, and Besson, , 1806.. Second edition. Quarter Calf. Very Good. 2nd edition. 8vo(216 x 134 mm). Contemporary quarter calf on marble boards with marble end papers. [8] [1]-186pp + 24 copper engraved plates with 236 hand-colored images of plants and plant parts, that is, leaves, flowers, stems, and roots.  This is generally a very clean copy. There is only some offsetting of color, mainly red to verso of previous plate. First nine plates signed with inverted anchor in lower lef... more information

Bonn: : Verlag von Max Cohen & Sohn, , 1868-1869. . First edition. Contemporary half red morocco. Very Good. 2 Volumes. 8vo(23.3 x 15.2 cm). Contemporary half red morocco with gilt labeling and decorations. Pflüger's Arch. Ges. Physiologie I. p.1-60; 173-207 + 3 folding plates. Also volume II. Bonn: Cohen, 1868-69. 8vo. Collation: 4 leaves, 690 p. + 10 plates (8 folding, 1 in color) and text illustrations. Ex Libris with stamp of Collège de France on title pages. First edition for... more information

Philadelphia: James Webster,, 1817-1819.. Contemporary tree calf. Very Good. 1st Edition. 2 Vol. 8vo. Contemporary tree calf. Repair to top of spines.One of the first courses given in America on Materia Medica by Chapman professor of material medica and theory and practice of medicine. ... more information

Altdorfi: : Jodoci Guilielmi Kohles, , 1705. . First edition. Full Leather. Very Good +. 4to. Contemporary leather with new spine; raised bandes and floral stamp in panels; author in gilt. Collation: [18], 88, [12] p. + one copper engraved plate. The last 12 unnumbered pages provide four separate indices for text citations from Scripture, Authors, Hebrew, Syrian and Arabic, and Words and Important Items. This is an extensive thesis on biblical and ethno- botany of a plant from present day Iran, Kali... more information

Upsaliae: : Literis Wernerianis, , 1734.. First edition. Marble Boards. Very Good. 12 mo (147 mm). Rebound in modern marble boards and new end papers. [10] 41 [5] p. with 5 woodcuts in text. Very clean and bright copy that has been slightly trimmed down from original (160 mm). This is an original edition of a dissertation by Rozir where he provides mathematical and historical discussion and information for the eliptical movement of Comets, most notably that which initially attracted interest of Flamstee... more information

London: : Society Apartments, Burling -ton House & Longmans…, and Williams and Norgate, , 1888. . First edition. Original Wraps. Very Good +. Journal of The Linnean Society. Zoology. Vol. XX (120), pp. 189-274. 8vo (22 x 14 cm). Original pink printed wrappers. There is minor dusting along edges and spine. Very clean internally. This is an uncut and unopened copy as issued. This paper was communicated to the Linnean Society by Alfred Wallace. This is the first appearance of Gulick’s thoug... more information

London: T. Dawks et al, 1683. ... more information

New York: Atheneum, 1968.. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very Good +. 4th printing. 8vo. (21.1 x 13.5 cm). Signed by Watsop on title page. Ann Orlov owner signature on ffep. Minor chipping on DJ Small tears on front cover at head and foot near spine. This is a very clean and bright copy of the classic work on the structure of DNA.This inscribed copy comes from the estate of Ann Orlov who was a managing editor at Harvard University Press. She mostlikely obtained this signed copy prior to Dr. Watson’s... more information

London: Reeve And Benham, 1851. This copy has the bookplate of E.W. Alabone, M.D. and the ink signature of Kenneth B. Alabone,along with A printed page of some of Dr. Alabone’s treatments for “consumption.” ... more information